General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Nguyen Phu Trong on May 24 cabled a message of condolences to Malaysian King Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah on the passing of the country’s seventh King Sultan Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah.

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung had working sessions with representatives of Vietnamese and Russian ministries and departments in Moscow on May 23 to discuss activities to celebrate the Vietnam Year in Russia and vice versa.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc met with leaders of the Russia-Vietnam Friendship Association and the association of former Russian military experts who helped Vietnam during the wartime, in Moscow on May 23 as part of his ongoing official visit to Russia.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc met Chairwoman of the Federation Council (upper house) of the Federal Assembly of Russia Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko in Moscow on May 23 as part of his official visit to the country.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on May 23 sent a message of congratulations to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on the successful organisation of the 17th Lok Sabha (House of People or lower house of India) election.

Vietnam and Russia have a lot of potentials to accelerate their cooperation and should strive for a two-way trade value of 10 billion USD by 2020, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Moscow on May 22.

Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong on May 23 received a delegation of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACCIC), led by its vice president Xu Lejiang.

Vietnam treasures its relations with the US and is ready to discuss measures to deepen the comprehensive partnership on the basis of respecting independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and political systems in each nation, said a senior official.